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Bart Vanstaen

Lawyer - Managing director

PwC Legal BV/SRL

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Bart is specialised in all areas of corporate law and structuring, M&A, commercial law and business contracts. Bart has extensive experience advising Belgian and international clients with domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. His involvement includes legal due diligence, legal structuring of transactions, drafting of transaction documentation, assistance with negotiations, signing and closing and post-acquisition restructurings.

He assisted various large corporates and other organisations with complex structuring, legal entity simplification and corporate transformational projects. He advised various multinational groups with the legal aspects and implementation of transfer pricing and value chain transformation projects.

He speaks Dutch, English and French.  

Professional background

2017 - present 

Advocaat vennoot/Avocat Associé, PwC Legal - Member of the Brussels Bar

2013 - 2017

Senior Managing Associate, PwC Legal

2006 - 2013

Legal Consultant to Senior Manager, Corporate & Commercial department, PwC Belgium  

Publications 

  • " Het nieuwe Centraal register van bestuursverboden: impact op de accountants en belastingadviseurs en hun cliënten", ITAA-Zine no 8, Oktober 2023.
  • "Omzetting van vennootschappen met een 'oude' rechtsvorm die door het WVV werd afgeschaft en waarvoor de overgangstermijn op 1 januari 2024 afloopt", ITAA-Zine no 10, 21 December 2022.
  • "Bestuurders van bedrijven kunnen niet iedereen plezieren", De Tijd, 8 June 2022.
  • "Ceci n'est pas un tiers - De fiscus is geen derde in de zin van de bepalingen omtrent de tegenwerpelijkheid van akten van vennootschappen met rechtspersoonlijkheid”, noot onder Cass. 2 september 2016, trv-rps 2018/1.
  • "De implementatie van het UBO-register”, Accountacy & Fiscaliteit 2018, nr. 30.
  • “Waarom (intragroep) contracten de aandacht verdienen van zowel een juridisch als fiscaal expert”, Accountancy & Fiscaliteit 2015, nr.1, 5.
  • ”Zitje in een raad van bestuur? Blijf niet stilzitten!” in Dynamiek / Entreprendre (BECI), December 2012

Academic Experience or roles in institutional organisation

  • Bart was a member of the general assembly of the Flemish bar association (Orde van Vlaamse Balies) in 2019-2020.

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At a glance

Areas of focus

  • Business Law

Experience

  • Business contracts, Corporate law and structuring, M&A, Start-ups and scale-ups

Bart Vanstaen

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